TNA Unbreakable (2025)

The 2025 Unbreakable was a professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by Total Nonstop Action Wrestling. The event took place on April 17, 2025, at the Cox Pavilion in Las Vegas, Nevada, and aired on TNA+ and Triller TV. It was the third event under the Unbreakable chronology.

Unbreakable
Promotion	Total Nonstop Action Wrestling
Date	April 17, 2025
City	Las Vegas, Nevada
Venue	Cox Pavilion
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Seven matches were contested at the event. In the main event, Steve Maclin defeated A. J. Francis and Eric Young in a tournament final to become the inaugural TNA International Champion. The event also marked the TNA debut of Sidney Akeem and the return from injury by Chris Bey.

Production

Background

TNA previously held a pay-per-view event titled Unbreakable in 2005,^[1] and a monthly special in 2019 (then known as Impact Wrestling).^[2]

On, February 13, 2025, TNA announced that Unbreakable would take place on Thursday, April 17, 2025, at the Cox Pavilion in Las Vegas, Nevada.^[3]

Storylines

The event featured professional wrestling matches that involve different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines. Wrestlers portray villains, heroes, or less distinguishable characters in scripted events that build tension and culminate in a wrestling match or series of matches.^[4]

On the April 3 episode of TNA Impact!, TNA Director of Authority Santino Marella came to the stage for an announcement, interrupting a promo between self-declared co-TNA Digital Media Champions Steph De Lander and Mance Warner. After demanding De Lander surrender the title belt, Marella immediately deactivated it to replace it with the TNA International Championship.^[5][6] The inaugural champion would be determined via a tournament culminating at Unbreakable, consisting of three three-way matches where the winners meet in the three-way finals, in honor of the 20th anniversary of the three-way match between AJ Styles, Samoa Joe, and TNA X Division Champion Christopher Daniels that main evented the first Unbreakable event – a match considered to be one of the greatest in TNA history and that helped put TNA on the map as a major national promotion.

The first-round matches would be announced later that night – Eddie Edwards vs. Ace Austin vs. Steve Maclin; Zachary Wentz vs. JDC vs. Eric Young; and A. J. Francis vs. Mance Warner vs. Sami Callihan.^[7] The latter match took place the following week, with Francis pinning Callihan to advance.^[8][9]

Sami Callihan, and Mance Warner and Steph De Lander had been feuding ever since the January 23 live episode of TNA Impact!, where De Lander confronted Callihan while carrying the TNA Digital Media Championship that she won in her "divorce" from on-screen husband PCO. Warner, De Lander's real-life fiancé, would debut and attack Callihan shortly after.^[10][11] Callihan and Warner would continually get into brawls for the next month, culminating in a street fight at Sacrifice which Warner won.^[12][13] Even after that, Callihan kept pursuing Warner and De Lander. On the March 27 TNA Impact!, Callihan, Warner, and De Lander had a war of words mediated by Santino Marella, but it ended when De Lander threw hot coffee into Callihan's face, kayfabe injuring his right eye.^[14][15] On the following week, Callihan demanded to be matched with Warner for the first round of the TNA International Championship tournament, replacing Zachary Wentz in their match with A. J. Francis.^[5][6] After both men failed to advance in the tournament, Callihan demanded that Marella give him one more match with Warner at Unbreakable, this time in Barbed Wire Massacre.^[8][9] The match was made official later that night.^[16]

Results

No.	Results[17]	Stipulations	Times[18]
1	Eric Young defeated Zachary Wentz and JDC by pinfall	TNA International Championship tournament semifinal match[7]	8:50
2	Steve Maclin defeated Eddie Edwards and Ace Austin by pinfall	TNA International Championship tournament semifinal match[7]	9:54
3	Moose defeated Sidney Akeem by pinfall	Singles match[19]	8:54
4	Mike Santana and The Hardys (Jeff Hardy and Matt Hardy) defeated Mustafa Ali and The Nemeth Brothers (Nic Nemeth and Ryan Nemeth) by pinfall	Six-man tag team match[20]	12:40
5	Joe Hendry and Masha Slamovich defeated Frankie Kazarian and Tessa Blanchard by pinfall	Mixed tag team match[21]	14:10
6	Sami Callihan defeated Mance Warner (with Steph De Lander) by pinfall	Barbed Wire Massacre[16]	19:10
7	Steve Maclin defeated A. J. Francis and Eric Young by pinfall	Tournament final for the inaugural TNA International Championship[7]	13:40

Inaugural TNA International Championship Tournament

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	First Round (TNA Impact!, April 10) (Unbreakable, April 17)					Final (Unbreakable, April 17)
	Eddie Edwards		9:55[18]
	Ace Austin		–
	Steve Maclin		Pin
	Zachary Wentz		8:50[18]			Steve Maclin		Pin
	JDC		–			Eric Young		–
	Eric Young		Pin			A. J. Francis		13:40[18]
	A. J. Francis		Pin
	Mance Warner		–
	Sami Callihan		7:51[22]